A lot of ink has been spilled on the question of what will ultimately win: the scientific method, an approach to learning about the world by coming up with theories and testing those theories against ...

Editor’s note: We’ve updated this story with the phrase “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” NASA’s most recent term for unidentified aerial phenomena. When NASA asked Boston University space physicist ...

Unless you're a physicist, you've probably only encountered quantum mechanics on TV. And even when it was explained, you might've still been a little confused. The field of quantum mechanics was ...

It sounds fictional, but the “science fiction science” or “sci-fi-sci” method is meant to predict the effects of real upcoming technologies on society before things take a dystopian turn. Researchers ...

President Trump’s executive order “Restoring Gold Standard Science” provides a directive to restore a higher standard for scientific research and discovery. Yet despite the concerns it raises, the ...